“We have partnered with Phoseon Technology UV LED lamps, and we have tested our inks using their FirePower 16 W/cm2 on our Mark Andy 4150 press in our Center for Technical Excellence in Plymouth, Minnesota,” says Tom Hammer, product manager Narrow Web North America for Flint Group. “With the FirePower units on our press, we have been able to experiment and test inks on several types of substrates and in many print combinations. We have found success and have been able to run a “first ever” true UV LED combination print using our newly developed four-color flexo process inks in combination with UV rotary screen white.”

Flint’s global brand manager Niklas Olsson says, “The UV Flexo ink series we have developed is based on bio-renewable resin technology as an added effort to address sustainability. Bio-renewable resins for UV products are a new development that will increase in use in the future; by combining this aspect with lower energy consuming UV LED lamps, it was a natural fit to brand this technology as EkoCure.”

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